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  Sometimes it's the little things....

  by dubstepped in

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  i'm listening to a podcast where a former elder describes how another elder conducted the watchtower study about hyperbole.

  the elder called it hyper-bowl.

  soon the whole congregation called it hyper-bowl.

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  @Morpheus - Yanny :)
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  Sometimes it's the little things....

  by dubstepped in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  i'm listening to a podcast where a former elder describes how another elder conducted the watchtower study about hyperbole.

  the elder called it hyper-bowl.

  soon the whole congregation called it hyper-bowl.

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  I'm listening to a podcast where a former elder describes how another elder conducted the Watchtower study about hyperbole. The elder called it hyper-bowl. Soon the whole congregation called it hyper-bowl. A little culty, no? One man says a word wrong and everyone does it.

  It made me think about how sometimes the brother in sound would play the wrong song but how many drones would sit there trying to make the words fit the wrong tune, and how embarrassingly long it would go on. Yep, a little culty.

  I had a friend that insisted on saying Isaiah, not as eye-zay-uh, but as eye-z-eye-uh because that's how the brother on the Bible tapes said it. After all, we were supposed to look to them for how to pronounce things. I brought out that the brother also said zeb-ra instead of zee-bra as we would say and that he just had a different accent. Still, he was sticking with the tapes, getting others to follow along with him. Again, a little culty.

  So, got any other little examples like that? Sometimes we can see just how much we were sheeple or mindless followers through these small things. I had never thought about it before and found it interesting.
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  Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion

  by jambon1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.

  aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.

  it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.

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  Many are absolutely phobic. You're correct in that it's not the teaching to be phobic, but it results in such. I knew people that wouldn't clean for gay couples, people that talked about us because we did, and my dad's last conversation with me was him screaming at me for "loving the gays" because he had pent up anger at me for a conversation years earlier where I defended them. Again, the admonition may not be to become phobic, but in my view it created a huge culture of homophobia. I knew so many people that were just that. I've read many experiences that expressed the same. So much anxiety, and frankly disgust for, people's sexuality and who they were, especially if they didn't fit the definitions of masculine and feminine espoused in the publications.

  I think it's interesting to compare the doctrine to the culture that it produces in most in the cult. There was so much drama around sexuality.

  Just like this video, how at face value they're telling you not to worry, Jesus will ride in to save you, but the emotion of the video is one of intensity, fear, anxiety. They know what they produce, and are so good they don't have to say it directly, which is all part of the manipulation.
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  Material such as the film at the end of this years convention confirms that I was right to take my kids out the religion

  by jambon1 in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  it’s quite affirming to see the horrific material that they’re serving up at the convention this year.

  aside from blatant homophobia, the scenes at the end of the convention that are discussed on another thread stoop to new levels of fear mongering.

  it seems to occur to nobody inside the organisation that this kind of material could trigger fear, deprsssion, anxiety, stress.

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  My wife's father is NOT going to be okay with this. The man skipped all the parts in the Bible that were too violent, including Jesus' death. He would fast forward through drama tapes that they'd listen too. Of course, it's not like he's going to leave, but it will get to him.

  Dubs are raising their emotional propaganda game. They'll drive a few away, and drive most deeper in.
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  Two May 19th articles about Lauren Stuart who killed her husband & two children-left a video & suicide note blaming sexual abuse & exclusion

  by AndersonsInfo in

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  2. friends

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5748191/woman-blamed-sexual-abuse-ostracism-jehovahs-witness-reasons-killing-suicide.html.

  revealed: ex-jehovah's witness turned model, 45, left a video and suicide note blaming childhood sex abuse and exclusion from her religion for killing her husband and children.

  lauren stuart of keego harbor, michigan had been researching suicide methods on youtube and videos on how to use a glock for weeks .

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  I can speak to it because on a level I was it. My wife would ask something of me for years that I could never understand, and that was a word called empathy, of which I had none. I didn't get it at all. I had to learn it, or maybe re-learn it. I still struggle at times and in areas but I get it now.
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  Two May 19th articles about Lauren Stuart who killed her husband & two children-left a video & suicide note blaming sexual abuse & exclusion

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5748191/woman-blamed-sexual-abuse-ostracism-jehovahs-witness-reasons-killing-suicide.html.

  revealed: ex-jehovah's witness turned model, 45, left a video and suicide note blaming childhood sex abuse and exclusion from her religion for killing her husband and children.

  lauren stuart of keego harbor, michigan had been researching suicide methods on youtube and videos on how to use a glock for weeks .

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  @stuckinarut - Yes, I think many JWs are that heartless. They reflect the heartless god they serve, a god that will kill billions soon in the great day of his anger. JWs look forward to the time when he gets to do this so they can pet pandas. They don't truly care about other people. They are dead and detached from the people around them, people that are merely problems standing in the way of their happiness. You get what you deserve in their eyes. It's all about rules, crime and punishment, and their base humanity has been shut down over time. It's how they survive in the cult.

  Clearly not all are that dead inside, but I truly believe that many are, or at least that's what they show outwardly to protect the cult and their cognitive dissonance. Deep down they may still have authentic feelings, but they're buried under mountains of indoctrination.
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  Two May 19th articles about Lauren Stuart who killed her husband & two children-left a video & suicide note blaming sexual abuse & exclusion

  by AndersonsInfo in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5748191/woman-blamed-sexual-abuse-ostracism-jehovahs-witness-reasons-killing-suicide.html.

  revealed: ex-jehovah's witness turned model, 45, left a video and suicide note blaming childhood sex abuse and exclusion from her religion for killing her husband and children.

  lauren stuart of keego harbor, michigan had been researching suicide methods on youtube and videos on how to use a glock for weeks .

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  police wrote:

  “(The sister) showed a very solemn and somber demeanor when she spoke and stated that she is not sad for Lauren and her family and that when she heard the news of her sister’s actions, she was not surprised in the slightest.”

  Yep, that's Jehovah's loving people right there. No compassion for any of them.
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  Consequences for having a non religious wedding ceraminy?

  by Addison0998 in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

  hey i was wondering if maybe someone who is an ex elder or who knows a lot about these things could help me.

  my dad is an elder but i need to be cautious with questions i ask.

  now that i’ve been woken up from my brainwashed love of this corrupt corporation and from my belief in the bible, and my fiancé is starting to wake up as well, i really don’t want to have the sexist, overused, impersonal talk outline used for my wedding ceremony by some elder who is trying to show off his talk giving skills.

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  My younger brother and his wife got married at a little place by some sort of non-religious person. Elders were present, my dad and her dad. People would get married by the justice of the peace. You absolutely do not have to have a JW wedding. Just don't do it at a Kingdom Hall. Find a beautiful place that you both enjoy. Have it just you two and family, or whatever you want.
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  Cults and extreme belief

  by Butyoucanneverleave in

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  a&e has a new show this season called cults and extreme belief.

  the second episode will air on 5/29 at 9:00 pm and jehovah's witnesses will be featured.

  hopefully they do a good job exposing them for what they really are.

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  JWs would have a cop out no matter what. Who cares what they think. They have had over a century to control the narrative. It's our time now. This sounds awesome.
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  Escaping the Watchtower episode one with Jason Droboth

  by Christian Gutierrez in

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  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki5pg4fjugi.

  hi guys!

  we are so happy to share with you the interesting story of former jehovah's witnesses member jason droboth.

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  dubstepped

  As the guy that does the "This JW Life" and "shunned" podcast, which is just audio, I can only imagine how much work goes into a full production like this. This was GREAT! And I'm not going to say it was great for your first episode, no, it was just great, period.

  I loved when he pointed out that basically the devastation of his parents was an imaginary or invented problem. It so is. It's nothing more than people creating problems where there aren't any based on made up belief systems.

  Keep up the good work. I heard you two on the JW Community podcast with Louise, so best wishes on living that boat life as well. You only live once. As a house cleaner myself (with my wife), there will always be dirty houses to clean, but you won't always have opportunities and youth.